Great-Grandfather Quotes

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather. Nik Wallenda
Pay Everything Tribute Great-Grandfather Pay Tribute
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot. Alan Garner
Library Man Extraordinary Read Great-Grandfather His Self-Taught Lot
My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a businessman and politician. I was actually raised by my grandfather. Aliko Dangote
Death Time Man Father Politician Nut Great-Grandfather Trader His West Africa Grandfather Richest Richest Man Businessman Actually Raised
My father, John, ran the Dowd Insurance Co. in town, which was started by his great-grandfather. My mother, Dolores, was a homemaker who kept an eye on all of us. Ann Dowd
Mother Father Ran Eye John Town Great-Grandfather Insurance His Which Us Who Homemaker Started Kept
The family on my mom's side, their whole business is inventing and pitching stuff. My grandfather is in infomercials. He's a pitchman, so if you're ever watching TV late at night, you'll probably see him pitching knives. My great-grandfather also invented the plastic cheese grater. Ashley Tisdale
Mom Family You Business Cheese Late Side TV See Invented Inventing He Stuff Knives Also Him Great-Grandfather Pitching Grandfather Plastic Whole Ever Watching Night Watching Tv
I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad. Bill Moseley
Men Come Great-Grandfather Line Railroad
My ancestry is really weird, because my great grandfather was from the Cayman Islands, and then his father was from England. But I lose track at that point. Carlos Mencia
Great Father Lose Ancestry Point Weird Track Great-Grandfather Because Islands His Grandfather Then Really England
My great-grandfather was prime minister of Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing up, until the family lost its money. And I decided to be bad and rough and find the streets rather than the gates. Christopher Plummer
Beautiful Family Money Lost Way Bad Minister Find Rather Had Prime Prime Minister Until Great-Grandfather Edwardian Up Very Upbringing Than Canada Romantic Decided Rough Growing Growing Up Streets Gates
My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather. Claire Denis
Great Mother Father Free Brazil Broke Spirit Free Spirit He Great-Grandfather Always Famous Grandfather Painter
My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then? David Hyde Pierce
Before Only Had Knows Great-Grandfather Been His Then Who Dad Actor
Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting. Drew Barrymore
People Back Circus John Drew Sort Great-Grandfather Odd Going Loved Interesting Interesting People Acting
I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, in 1948. My parents were family physicians. My grandfather and great grandfather on my mother's side were geologists. Elizabeth Blackburn
Great Family Mother Parents Side City Born Small Physicians Great-Grandfather Were Australia Grandfather
There is no need to tell you that the 'Prince of Salina' is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
You Tell Prince Great-Grandfather Need
My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then. Hamza Yusuf
Love Great Immigrants City Brotherly Potato Impending Headed Great-Grandfather Arrived His Ireland Michael America Famine Grandfather Then Mecca Bride Early Philadelphia
My great-grandfather started in the coal mines, and my great grandmother made 10 pounds of bread every Saturday morning that we delivered to the neighbors. It was always about giving back. These kinds of things drive me to make a difference. Heather Bresch
Great Morning Me Made Giving Drive Every Back Mines Neighbors Kinds About Giving Back Pounds Delivered Make Make A Difference Great-Grandfather Always Difference Bread Grandmother Coal Saturday Saturday Morning Things Started
My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr. Horton Foote
Mother Father Harriet Brooks Horton Named Great-Grandfather Always His Paternal Grandmother Twenty-Two Her Albert
My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine. J. B. Pritzker
Ukraine Great-Grandfather Came Refugee Here
My great-grandfather was the last ruler of the Choctaw Nation, and from birth, I was taught that my role was to restore the power and the glory to my bloodline. James Meredith
Power Nation Birth Ruler Restore Great-Grandfather Glory Role Taught Last
My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34. John Gokongwei
Age Father Immigrant Great-Grandfather Died Grandfather Lived
I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. Kangana Ranaut
Great Valley Named Come Great-Grandfather After Grandfather Near
My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out. Kent Beck
Organ Out Silent Silent Movies Great-Grandfather Movies Played
My great grandfather had been the neighbourhood 'horse whisperer,' so I've probably loved horses since I was an embryo. Whenever I watched cowboy films as a small child, I wasn't watching the hunky cowboys - which I'd probably do now - I was watching the horses. Even now, I love sitting in the field just watching the way they move. Lee Pearson
Love Great Field Films Way Neighbourhood Embryo Small Horse Small Child Horses Had Since Great-Grandfather Been Cowboy Cowboys Child Sitting Move Just Whenever Loved Which Grandfather Even Even Now Now Watched Watching
My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do. Nik Wallenda
Life Hero Everything Inspiration Great-Grandfather Behind Biggest Karl
My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband. Pamela Anderson
Great Wonderful Father Husband He Terrible Great-Grandfather Grandfather
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions. Pete du Pont
Great Family Business Dangerous Father Ancestors Has-Been Gunpowder Both Almost Come Great-Grandfather Were Been His Years Very Grandfather Explosions Here Started
I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the fabric industry, and even my grandfather and my great-grandfather were lace manufacturers. Stacey Bendet
Me Father Design Background Fabric Industry Great-Grandfather Traditional Were Lace Grandfather Inherent Manufacturers Even
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